Twelve Tribes & 144,000 Male Virgins
One Sunday in 1975, Elbert Eugene Spriggs broke away from his church to form a new one. A few name changes, global settlements, and multimillion dollar businesses later, the group is most infamous for...
22 Mars 202241min
Father Yod & The Source Family
After a restaurateur finds massive success with a natural food cafe in Los Angeles, he changes his name and starts a commune. Suruthi and Hannah take it back to the ‘70s to trace the life of Jim Baker...
15 Mars 202231min
The Rainbow Family of Living Light
Since the ‘70s, thousands of people have come together every year for peaceful gatherings in national forests. But these so-called Rainbow Gatherings are plagued by a history of disappearances, deaths...
8 Mars 202229min
The Sex Guru’s Utopia
From meditation retreats to murder conspiracies… Hannah and Suruthi limber up to the story of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh — the self-proclaimed “Sex Guru” whose teachings attracted thousands to his now-inf...
1 Mars 202244min
Doctor Dowie’s City of Zion
John Alexander Dowie founded the Christian Catholic Church as well as a commune called Zion in 1896 after performing miracles as a faith healer. But while he lived a lavish lifestyle, his critics call...
22 Feb 202231min
Rod Ferrell’s Vampire Clan
In the 1990s, a teenager in Kentucky got into a role-playing game about vampires and the occult. A few years later, he was drinking his friends’ blood, adopting an ancient vampiric identity, and plann...
15 Feb 202236min
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
It’s California in the 1960s. LSD is a sacrament, orgies are sacred, and utopia is just one good trip away… at least for the band of hippies led by John Griggs. Hannah and Suruthi drop into the Brothe...
8 Feb 202231min
Sherry Shriner's Reptilian Cult
Sherry Shriner’s conspiracy theories exploded online in the late 2000s with the debut of her YouTube channel, but the seeds of her bizarre beliefs had been planted in her childhood. Hannah and Suruthi...
1 Feb 202234min
